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A96278	Englands Iliads in a nut-shell. Or, A briefe chronologie of the battails, sieges, conflicts, and other most remarkable passages from the beginning of this rebellion, to the 25. of March, 1645.	Wharton, George, Sir, 1596-1672.	1645 (1645)	Wing W1544; Thomason E1182_3; ESTC R208159	28,009	48

best thing in it selfe for the beeter the thing is in nature the worse it is corrupted And that being the highest Court over which no other hath jurisdiction when t is mis-informed or mis-governed the Subject is left without all remedy But I have done I forgive all the world all and every of those bitter Enemies which have persecuted me and humbly desire to be forgiven of God first and then of every man whether I have offended him or not if he do but conceive that I have Lord doe thou forgive me and I beg forgivenesse of him And so I heartily desire you to joyne in Prayer with me O Eternall God and mercifull Father look down upon me in mercy in the riches and fulnes of all thy mercies look upon me but not till thou hast nailed my sins to the Crosse of Christ not till thou hast bathed me in the bloud of Christ not till I have hid my self in the wounds of Christ that so the punishment due unto my sinnes may passe over me And since thou art pleased to try me to the uttermost I humbly beseech thee give me now in this great instant full patience proportionable comfort and a heart ready to dye for thy honour the King's happinesse and this Churches preservation And my zeale to these far from Arrogancy be it spoken is all the sinne humane frailties excepted and all incidents thereto which is yet known to me in this particular for which I now come to suffer I say in this particular of Treason but otherwise my sins are many and great Lord pardon them all and those especially what ever they are which have drawn down this present judgement upon me and when thou hast given me strength to beare it doe with me as seems best in thine owne eyes and carry me through death that I may look upon it in what visage soever it shall appear to me Amen And that there may be a stop of this issue of bloud in this more then miserable Kingdome I shall desire that I may pray for the people too as well as for my selfe O Lord I beseech thee give grace of repentance to all Bloud-thirsty people but if they will not repent O Lord confound all their devices defeat and frustrate all their designes and endeavours upon them which are or shall be contrary to the Glory of thy great Name the truth and sincerity of Religion the establishment of the King and his posterity after him in their just rights and Priviledges the honour and conservation of Parliaments in their just power the preservation of this poore Church in her truth peace and patrimony and the settlement of this distracted and distressed People under their ancient Lawes and in their native Liberties And when thou hast done all this in meere mercy for them O Lord fill their hearts with thankefulnesse and with religious dutifull obedience to thee and thy Commandements all their dayes So Amen Lord Jesus Amen and receive my Soule into thy Bosome Amen Our Father which art in heaven c. Jan. 11. Sir Henry Gage Governour of Oxford marched thence with a party of horse and foot towards Abingdon with intention to raise a Fort at Cullom bridge but Browne having treacherous notice of the design was prepared accordingly which begat a hot skirmish wherein the Rebels lost Major Bradbury and at least 30 others slaine and on his Majesties part not above 7. common souldiers but by great misfortune Sir Hen Gage himselfe marching in the front of his men did here receive a fatal shot whereof within few hours after he dyed His Body was afterwards interred at Oxford with funebrious exequies and solemnities answerable to his merits who having done His Majesty speciall service was whilst living generally beloved and dead is still universally lamented His daily refreshed memory makes me trespasse on the Readers patience with this ELEGIE Vpon the never-enough lamented death of Sir HEN GAGE the most desired Governour of Oxford SO Titus called was The worlds delight And straight-way dy'd The envious Sisters spight Still the great favourite The darling head Unto the Fates is alwayes forfeited Our Life 's a Chase where though the whole Herd fly The goodlyest Deere is singled out to dye And as in beasts the fattest ever bleeds So amongst men he that doth bravest deeds He might have liv'd had but a coward feare Kept him securely sculking in the reare Or like some sucking Colonell whose edge Durst not advance a foot from a thick hedge Or like the wary Skippon had so sure A suit of Armes he might besieg'd endure Or like the politick Lords of different skill Who thought a Saw-pit safer or a hill Whose valour in two organs too did lye Distinct the ones in 's eare th' others in his eye Puppets of War Thy name shall be divine And happily augment the number Nine But that the Heroes and the Muses strive To owne thee dead who wert them all alive Such an exact composure was in thee Neither exceeded Mars nor Mercurie T was just though hard thou shouldst dye Governour Of th' Kings chiefe Fort of Learning and of War Thy death was truly for thy Garrison Thou dy'dst projecting her Redemption What unto Basing twice successefull spirit Was done th' hast effected here in merit The Bridge was broken downe The Fort alone GAGE was himselfe the first and the last stone Goe burne thy Faggots Browne and grieve thy Rage Lets thee out live the gentle grasp of GAGE And when thou read'st in thy Britanicus The boasted story of his death say thus The Valour I have shewne in this was Crime And GAGES Death will brand me to all Time In this moneth a faire new Ship called the John of London belonging to the East-India Merchants was brought to Bristol by the loyalty of Captain Mucknell and the rest of the Officers and Mariners of the Ship for His Majesties service wherein were 26. Peeces of Ordnance mounted 17000. l. in money besides some other good commodities For which good service the said Captaine Mucknell had the honour to be the first Knight that ever the Prince of Wales made And within a few dayes after another Ship called The Fame of London of burthen 450. Tunnes with 28. Peeces of Ordnance mounted was by Tempest forced into Dartmouth where she was seized on for His Majesties service as lawfull prize being bound for Dover or London This Ship had been abroad 4 yeares and was now returning homewards from the West-Indies laden with Bullion Oyle Couchaneille and other rich commodities to the value of 40000. l. at least Jan. 30. The Treaty began at Uxbridge wherein the candour of His Majesties reall intentions and desires of Peace was very perspicuous For His Majesty did not only arme his Commissioners or any ten of them with a very large and powerfull Commission to treat of conclude and settle a firme Peace in all His Dominions but did also by Proclamation appoint a solemne Fast on the 5. day of February

ENGLANDS ILIADS IN A NVT-SHELL OR A briefe Chronologie of the Battails Sieges Conflicts and other most remarkable passages from the beginning of this Rebellion to the 25. of March 1645. CICERO Incerti sunt exitus pugnarum Marsque est communis qui saepe spoliantem jam exultantem evertit perculit ab abjecto OXFORD Printed in the Yeare 1645. THE PREFACE Readers YOu have here presented to your view a Little-great Book Little in respect of its bulk but Great in its Contents Wherein the sad effects of a Triennial Rebellion are epitomiz'd with candour and impartiality Herein whoever considers the number of persons slaine the destruction of Houses and Families the desolation of Cities and Townes the increase of Widdowes and Orphanes may easily determine whether Jupiter or Mars whether the white Angel or the black whether Jehova or Abaddon gave beginning to this pretended Parliament and whether hath had the greater influence on their actions who being inspired by a fatall Genius have plotted to bring this late flourishing Kingdome to utter ruine In a word if the representment of the crying guilt of bloud may worke any remorse of conscience in the Rebellious or the evidence of a good cause infuse any encouragement into His Majesties loyall Subjects it is the utmost aime this labour looks to and may happily be a meanes of the continuance of this Work till such time as Almighty God in his goodnesse shall please to set a period to this Rebellion by rewarding it with its due Guerdon by restoring Religion to its genuine purity freed from Sectaries and profanenesse by re-establishing the King in his just rights and prerogatives by re-inforcing the known Laws of the Land freed from Fellow-Subjects Tyranny and Arbitration and by re-estating the Subject in his ancient Liberties freed from Rapine and Plunder Which that wee may quickly see let it be the subject of every good Christians Prayer May 20. 1645. Memorable Occurrences since the beginning of this Rebellion Anno Dom. 1641. IN December 1641. The House of Commons publisht a Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdome therein setting forth all the errors of his Majesties Government a meer designe to alienate the affection of his Subjects from him The tenth of Ianuary following his Majesty with the Queen Prince and Duke of Yorke left White-hall and went to Hampton Court to avoide the danger of those frequent tumults then hazarding the safety of his royall person February the 23. the Queens Majesty took shipping at Dover having been driven before from White-Hall by the frequent tumults of the Rebels And soon after his Majesty went to Newmarket and from thence to Yorke where after the rebels had Guards for 3 monthes before the Gentry of the countrey raised a Guard for his Maiesties person Anno Dom. 1642. MAY the 20. it was voted by both Houses That the King intended to levie war against the Parliament which they did on purpose to excuse themselves for raising a Rebellion against His Majesty as appeared within few dayes after July the second the Kings ship called the Providence landed in the Creek of Kenningham neer Hull till which time his Majesty had not a Barrell of powder nor any Armes or Ammunition whatsoever Iuly the 12 the pretended two Houses Voted That the Earle of Essex should be Generall of their Army and that they would live and die with him August the first the Earl of Essex caused all the men then raised being in number about 10000 to be committed to Officers and divided into Regiments which men had been raising ever since the 12 of Iuly 1642. at which time he was made Generall of the Rebels August the 6. the Earle of Bedford having fruitlessely besieged the Lord Marquesse of Hertford in Sherburn Castle for 4 dayes before retreated to Yevell the Noble Marquesse sallied after him and with a small number fell on that great body of the Rebels killed above 140 whereof 9 Commanders took divers prisoners and routed the rest so as he marched away and after divided his small Forces going himself into Wales and Sir Ralph now Lord Hopton into Cornwall of both which there followed so good an effect August the 22. His Majesty set up his Standard Royall at Nottingham for raising of Forces to suppresse the Rebels then marching against him September 23. Prince RVPERT with about 11 Troops of Horse gave a great overthrow to the Rebels in Wikefield neare Worcester where Colonell Sands that commanded in chief received his mortall wound Major Douglas a Scot and diverse other Captaines and Officers slaine and drowned Captaine Wingate a Member of the House of Commons with four Coronets taken and two more torne in pieces This body of the Rebels was observed to be the flower of their Cavalrie October the 23 was that signall great battell fought between Keynton and Edge-hill by his Majesties Army and that of the Rebels led by the Earle of Essex wherein the Rebels lost above 70 Colours of Coronets and Ensignes and his Majesty but onely 16 Ensignes and not one Coronet The exact number that were slaine on both sides in this Battaile is not knowne But it is certaine that the Rebels lost above three for one Men of eminence of his Majesties Forces who were slaine in the battaile were the two Noble and valiant Lords Robert Earle of Lindsey Lord High Chamberlaine of England and George Lord D. Aubigney brother to the Duke of Richmond and Lenox Sir Edmund Verney Knight Marshall to His Majesty with some other worthy Gentlemen and Souldiers but besides these three named here was not one Noble-man or Knight killed which was an extraordinary mercy of Almighty God considering what a glorious sight of Princes Dukes Marquesses Earles Viscounts Barons Knights and Gentlemen of all Orders were not only present but engaged themselves against the Rebels as much or more then Common Souldiers which they most cheerfully did by example of his sacred MAJESTY whose Royall undaunted Courage put life into every man exposing His Sacred Person to so much danger as all good men doe tremble to remember His Royall Sonnes the two young Princes CHARLES Prince of Wales and JAMES Duke of Yorke being also in the field in very much danger if God whose cause it was had not covered their heads in the day of battaile The Rebels as they had few men of quality to lose so those they had were sensible of their guilt which then they expressed by their flight some sculking into holes and Saw-pits and others running out before they were well in the field They lost of note the Lord Saint Iohn eldest sonne to the Earle of Bulling brooke Sir Charles Essex with many inferiour Officers October the 27 His Majesty to compleat his victory in Keynton field drew his whole Army before Banbury but after the firing of one peece of Ordnance the Rebels submitted to His Majesties mercy which were in number about 800 foot of the Earle of Peterboroughs and Lord Says Regiments with

Generall the Earle of Essex who with the Lord Roberts fled to Plymouth in a Cock-boat the night past this day yeelded up to his Majesty all their Traine of Artillery viz. 49. peeces of faire Brasse Ordnance 200 and odde barrels of Gunpowder with match ball c. proportionable above 700 Carriages and betwixt 8 and 9000 Armes His Majesty out of his wonted Clemency granting them their lives September 5. His Majesty having obtained so compleat a victory over the rebels did as formerly after the defeat of Waller from Tavestocke send his second message of Peace to Westminster In the beginning of this month his Majesties forces in Scotland under the command of his Excellency Iames Lord Marquesse of Montrosse and General Major Mackdonald who not long before landed in that Kingdom with 1000 Irish obtained a great victory over the rebels there upon Newbigging moore near Saint Iohns Town where were killed above 1200 rebels among which was the Laird of Rires and some others of note and 7 brasse Peeces taken this done his Majesties forces pursued them to St. Iohns Town and took it and therein and in the battell tooke 2000 of the rebels prisoners with 2 peeces of Ordnance more all their Arms Ammunition and Baggage and this done with the losse of not above 60 men on his Majesties part The rebels in this battell were commanded by the Earle of Tullibairne the Lord Drummond the Lord Elcho and Sir Iames Scot of Rossy their word was Jesus No quarter And within a fortnight after this successe his Excellency the Marquis of Montrosse Major Gen. Mackdonald obtained a second victory over another body of rebels in that Kingdom commanded by the Lord Forbes Burly and others neare Aberdeen wherein the Marquesse killed and took prisoners at least 1000. with 3 peeces of cannon and all their baggage without any considerable losse on his Majesties part among the prisoners taken by the Marquesse there was Sir William Forbes of Craigyvar and John Forbes of Boynly with others of note And soon after the Marquesse took the Towne of Aberdeen with all the Ordnance Ammunition and Armes and many of the fugitive rebels therein September 11. The Garrison of Basing after 18 weeks siege wherein the rebels lost many hundreds of their men was releived from Oxford by Sir Henry Gage September 12. Ilfercombe in Devonshire rendred to Generall Goring for his Majesty September 17. Barnstaple in Devonshire that had revoled upon the Earle of Essex his approach submitted to his Majesty and obtained from him their second pardon Septemb. 23. Colonell Iohn Fines having besieged the castle of Banbury above a month before hired his men to storme it in five places in all which they were shamefully beaten off with great losse October 7 In the night Sir Rich. Greenvile took the Town of Saltash by storming wherein 400 rebels were killed and at least 300 taken prisoners with their Arms this Town had been quitted by his Majesties forces not long before without any considerable losse Octob. 25. The Earl of Northampton and Sir Hen. Gage raised the siege of Banbury castle fell upon Colonell John Fines his flying troopes slew about 60 of them took above 100 prisoners with about 200 horses one peece of Ordnance all their Ammunition and many Armes Octob. 27. The rebels having thus lost two of their Armies called the third under the Earl of Manchesters command out of the Associated Counties and forced other Regiments out of London to withstand the King who was now advanced to Newberry with part of his Army where the rebels apprehending a great advantage in regard that the rest of his Majesties forces were not come up fell upon his Majesties quarters but were beaten off with the slaughter of about 1000 of their men whereof Major U●rey with some other of their prime Commanders were part with the losse of Sir Antho St. Leager and lesse then 100 others on his Majesties side who had the pillage of the field here the valiant Earle of Cleveland was casually taken prisoner having his horse first killed under him November 6 His Majesty had his rendezvouz on Bullington green betwixt Wallingford and Oxford November 9. His Army came to Dennington castle which since his Majesties marching thence had been againe besieged by the rebels and raised the siege the rebels not daring to withstand his Army November 17. The King having some dayes expected the rebels who it seemes were loath to hazard the last stake advanced towards them to Hungerford upon whose approach the rebels left the field Whereupon his Majesty sen● Sir Henry Gage with a party to supply the wants of Basing that had been besieged all this Summer by five Colonels and their Regiments but the rebels had raised the siege before his approach November 19. Monmouth that had lately been betrayed by Kirle was bravely regained by the Lord Herbert of Ragland wherein was taken the rebels whole Committee 14 peeces of Ordnance with store of Armes and Ammunition 30 Officers and common souldiers proportionable whereby South-Wales is much secured November 23. The King having thus victoriously defeated two of their Armies and driven away the third came to Oxford to entertaine an overture of Peace certaine Propositions being the same day come thither from London having disposed of his Army to their winter Quarters Novemb. 26. A Vote passed by the members of the House of Commons at Westminster for the utter abolishing and taking away of the book of Common Prayer with intention to set up a new device to be called a Directory in its roome Decemb. 13. His Majesty out of his wonted desire of Peace sent the Duke of Richmond and Earle of Southampton to the Houses of Parliament at Westminster for a Treaty as the best expedient for Peace About the middle of this month Helmsley Castle in Yorkshire which had been gallantly defended during 16 weeks siege by Captain Jordan Crosland and some others was delivered up to the Rebels under command of the Lord Fairfax upon honourable conditions to march away the Governour and Officers with their horses and Armes the rest without Armes In this siege the Defendants amongst others made one remarkable salley wherein they took Sergeant Major Generall Forbs a Scot prisoner with divers others here did Sir T. Fairfax also receive a shot in the shoulder from the Castle Decemb. 22. Colonell Eyre with some horse from Newarke took 2 Troops of horse at Upton belonging to the Rebels of Nottingham brought the men colours horses and Armes all safe to Newarke Decemb. 23. Sir Alex Carew was beheaded on Tower-Hill by Martial Law for intanding to deliver up the Island at Plymouth to His Majesty he was observed to be most violent against his Majesty in the beginning of this rebellion but it should seem he had of late some disposition to be a convert which made his fellow members think fit to dispatch him to another world Decemb. 24. Sir Will Vaughan Governour of Shrawarden castle for his